Improvement in apparatus for drawing water



UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GAIN BROYLES, OF GREENE COUNTY, TENNESSEE.

iMPROVElVIENT iN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING WATER.

Specilicationforming part ol' Letters Patent No. 7,319, dated April 30, i850.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GAIN BROYLES, of the county of Greene and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvementon the Planof Drawing Water, 8vo., upon a XVlre or other Material upon an Inclined Plane, Wh1ch improvement I believe has not been used or known before my discovery, and is as follows, viz:

It will operate upon a perfect plane, upon a slight inclination over a hill, or on a plane by constructing a perpendicular curve in the wlre-line of sufficient height at its greatest elevation to cause the car, dre., to run from said elevation to the spring. The position of the greatest height of curve should be situated variously within half the distance to the sprmg, according to circumstances and locallty. The prz'mmn mobile is the weight which carries the car and empty bucket up the ascent, as in Figure 1, or acts upon the inclination of the wire line beyond the turningpoint, asin Figs. l and 2.

When the spring or fountain is not a great distance off, and the situation favorable, the greatest height or turning-point (from whence the car will run of its own gravity) maybe placed from twenty feet and upward from the place where the water is received, the distance having a correct proportion to the maximum -height of the wire and the construction of the pulley, hereinafter described.

On or near an arm attached to the high post b, Fig. 1, at the turning-point place, is a pulley or windlass, i, of the proper length for the action of the two cords and their appendages actinghorizontally, the end next the post being much smaller than the end next the wire, as the capstan. The greater the difference in the diameterof the two ends of the pulley the more obtuse and convenient will be the angle of operation at the turning point. At the small end of the pulleyi, near the main post b, attach a cord7 7c, reaching nearly to the ground, with a weight suspended, and at the large end attacha cord, h, reaching to where the water is received, the two cords belting the pulleyin opposite directions. To the near end of cord h attach a ring, through which a long cord, h', reaching from the house to the spring, will pass, and as the bucket is returning from the spring, drawn by the long cord passing through the ring confined to the pul-` ley by the weight suspended from the small end by cord k, the car, as it passes the turning-point, with the hook s catches the ring and raises the suspended weight to thearm, when the water is at the house.. .Vhen the bucket is empty at the house the weight Z, suspended from the pulley by the cord k, will descend to the base and thereby wind up the cord h, with its ring connected with the cord h by a hook, s, attached to the car, thus carrying the car with the bucket to the turningpoint, where the ring will stop and the hook will run out and on to the spring, extending the long cord from the house to the spring.

Fig. 2: At about half or within half theA distance from the house to the spring erect the main post, which gives the maximum height of the curve, which height .must be suliicient for the descent of the car, &c. From thence to the spring place in said post, Fig. 2, an arm above the one that sustains the wire. On the far side of and near the turning point place a propellingcar, n, with varied gravity, to suit each Alocality respectively. Said propelling-car must have a cord, o, at-

tached, reaching to where the water is 4received,A with a ring, p, on the end, through which the long cord q, reaching to the spring, passes. Vhen at the spring turn the crank at the house, draw up the car, Sie., to the turuing-point by the cord q, passing through the ring p, when the hook w will catch the ring and bring it on to the house, when the pro peller will be at the turning-point and the car and bucket at thehouse.

Vihen` the bucket is emptied, the cord o, attached to the Where the Water is wanted for use, Viz: the discharge over the highest point of the Way combination ofthe Weight and its cord, pulto the spring.

ley, and ring with the cord by which the j bucket is drawn and the hook or catch upon GAIN BROYLES' the carriage, the Whole being arranged sub- Attest:

stantially as described, for the purpose of V. SEVIER,

drawing the empty bucket from the place of E. N. BROYLES. 

